Colby Rasmus went 3-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs and finished a triple short of the cycle for the Blue Jays, who have won 18 of their last 25 against the Twins. Todd Redmond (1-1) worked around Aaron Hicksâ two-run homer in the fifth â the only hit he allowed in five innings â to secure his first major-league win.

Trevor Plouffe belted a two-run home run in the eighth and finished with two of the Twinsâ five hits. Ontario native Scott Diamond (5-8) was roughed up again on the road, falling to 0-3 with an 8.39 ERA over his last five such starts after giving up six runs and eight hits over 4 2/3 innings.

Redmond and Diamond traded zeroes through 3 Â½ innings until Rasmus followed a double by Davis with a two-run blast to right-center. The Twins evened it in the fifth when Redmond issued his third and final walk and Hicks pounded a 2-1 fastball into the Minnesota bullpen for his first homer since May 29.

Toronto took the lead back for good on Reyesâ solo shot four pitches into the fifth and Davis put the game away when he drilled a 1-0 fastball into the second deck. The Twins scratched out a run in the sixth, but the Blue Jays got the run back in the seventh and added four more in the eighth to pad their cushion.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Toronto has won nine of its last 11 at the Rogers Centre against Minnesota and improved to 40-16 at home against the Twins since 2006. The Jays havenât lost a series to Minnesota since May 25-27, 2007. â¦ Davis stole his 102nd base as a member of the Blue Jays in the seventh, pushing him past Otis Nixon for eighth place on the teamâs all-time list. â¦ Minnesota 1B Justin Morneau, a Canada native, went 0-for-1 with a walk and finished hitless in nine at-bats in this series. In 26 career games in Toronto, he is batting .188.